Population Events
The Population Institute's 27th Annual Global Media Awards
December 05, 2006 // 9:00am — 4:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
The ECSP Report was recently named the winner of the Population Institute's 27th Annual Global Media Award for Best Population Journal. The 11th edition of the ECSP Report received the award for promoting dialogue on the connections among environment, health, and population dynamics and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy.
Urban Transport Development in China - Trends and Challenges
November 30, 2006 // 8:00am — 10:00am
China Environment Forum
Lee Schipper and Wei-Shiuen Ng from EMBARQ at the World Resources Institute's Center for Sustainable Transport, and transportation specialist Graham Smith examine China's current motorization trends and their consequences.
Report Launch: The World's Water 2006-2007
November 16, 2006 // 9:00am — 10:30am
Environmental Change and Security Program
Launching the fifth edition of the biennial report The World's Water, Peter Gleick provides an updated analysis on water, and the political, economic, technological, and scientific issues associated with it.
Environmental Health Crises in Southwest China
November 08, 2006 // 8:00am — 10:00am
China Environment Forum
Millions of rural and urban citizens in China suffer from health problems and limits to economic development due to contamination or shortages of water and air pollution from coal. In southwest China, water challenges are particularly acute due to that region's karst geology, where much of the water flows underground through caves rather than on the surface
Book Discussion: The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization
November 03, 2006 // 9:00am — 10:30am
Environmental Change and Security Program
According to Thomas Homer-Dixon, society is more likely to break down when multiple stresses occur simultaneously. Like an earthquake, societal pressures—or "tectonic stresses"—build up beneath the surface and are released by factors that are difficult to anticipate, sometimes with catastrophic results.
Environmental Stress and Demographic Change: Underlying Conditions and Nepal's Instability
November 01, 2006 // 11:00am — 1:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Bishnu Raj Upreti discusses the ways in which efforts to resolve Nepal's demographic and environmental problems could reduce conflict, alleviate poverty, and provide a pathway to peace.
Foreign Policy Under a Conservative Government
October 30, 2006 // 7:30am — 4:00pm
Canada Institute
The Canada Institute and the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute (CDFAI) co-sponsored CDFAI's 2006 Annual Conference, "Foreign Policy Under a Conservative Government: An Interim Report Card," which looked at the Harper government's record on foreign policy, defense, and development.
Mechanisms for Health Systems Management: Reflections on the World Bank and USAID Experiences
October 24, 2006 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Sallie Craig Huber of Management Sciences for Health and Dr. Benjamin Loevinsohn of the World Bank examine critical relationships between NGOs and governments in health care delivery, and discuss the most efficient ways to accomplish health and stability goals in fragile settings.
Book Discussion: The Other Half of Gender: Men's Issues in Development
October 23, 2006 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Gender studies have traditionally focused on women and girls, paying little attention to the attitudes and behaviors of men. But a new book from the World Bank, The Other Half of Gender: Men's Issues in Development, attempts to bring the gender and development debate full circle.
Food Security and Its Impact on International Development and HIV Reduction
October 16, 2006 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Global Health Initiative
"Hunger is the greatest public health problem in the world and it underpins—or undermines—a nation's development," says Jordan Dey, director of the U.S. Relations Office at the World Food Programm.